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John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950-March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his appearances in Hollywood films.

Candy came to prominence as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City Television series, as well as other roles in Only the Lonely and JFK.

Del Griffith, the talkative shower-curtain salesman in John Hughes' comedy Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, was one of his most well-known onscreen roles.

Candy was co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1991 to his death, and the team won the 1991 Grey Cup under his ownership. Candy died of a heart attack in Durango, Mexico, on March 4, 1994, aged 43.

Wagons East and Canadian Bacon are two of his final two films, dedicated to his memory.

Early life

Candy was born in Toronto on October 31, 1950, and it grew to Newmarket, Ontario. Sidney James Candy (1920–1955) and Evangeline (née Aker; 1916–2009) Candy's uncle was born in a working-class Catholic family. He grew up in East York, Ontario, on 217 Woodville Ave. Candy's mother was of Polish descent. 19 In 1955, his father died of heart disease complications at the age of 35.

Candy studied at Neil McNeil Catholic High School in Toronto. He wanted to be a football player long before acting was a possibility, but a knee injury prevented him from participating. He enrolled in Centennial College to study journalism and then moved to McMaster University. While at college, he began acting.

Personal life

Christopher Michael and Jennifer Anne were candy and his partner, Rosemary Hobor.

Candy confessed to suffering from severe anxiety and panic attacks.

Candy was co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and the team won the 1991 Grey Cup under his ownership.

Candy died on March 4, 1994 while filming Wagons East; a spokeswoman said that his cause of death was a heart attack in his sleep. He was 43 years old. In addition to his hunger, he used to binge eat in response to professional difficulties, and weighed in excess of 300 pounds (140 kg) at certain times in his life. Candy had a variety of risk factors for heart disease, including a strong family history (his father died soon after of a heart attack, although his children say he was unaware of his vulnerability), smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, heavy alcohol use, and use of cocaine. Candy was worried about her weight. When preparing for a new film role with Steve Martin, he once shed 100 pounds over a summer. Due to his family's history, he often died and exercised with trainers. Jim Belushi, Bill Murray, Ally Sheedy, Annette Bening, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Steve Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, Andrea Martin, and Rick Moranis attended Candy's funeral.

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Career

In the inaugural season of the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, John Candy was cast in a tiny part as a Shriner in Creeps by David E. Freeman, a new Canadian play about cerebral palsy.

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Candy appeared on a Canadian children's television series Cucumber, as well as a small, uncredited appearance in Class of '44 (1973).

He appeared in The ABC Afternoon Playbreak ("Last Bride of Salem") and appeared on the television series Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins (1974–75).

In the episode "Web of Guilt" on the Canadian television series Police Surgeon, Richie played a suspected killer in 1975. At the time (1975), he was in It Seemed Like a Good Idea (1975), as well as the children's sitcom Coming Up Rosie (1975–78), with Dan Aykroyd.

Candy was only involved in Tunnel Vision (1976).

Candy appeared in 1976 on Peter Gzowski's short-lived late-night television talk show 90 Minutes Live (with Rick Moranis). Candy played a small part in the Canadian thriller The Silent Partner, alongside Christopher Plummer and Elliott Gould.

Candy was a member of The Second City of Toronto in 1972. He rose as a member of the company, which soared when he became a cast member of the famous Toronto-based comedy variety show Second City Television (SCTV). In 1981, NBC introduced the show, and it quickly became a fan favorite. In 1981 and 1982, Emmy Awards were given for the show's writing.

Johnny LaRue, a 3-D horror auteur, sycophantic and easily amused talk-show sidekick William B. Williams, Melonville's corrupt Mayor Tommy Shanks were among Candy's SCTV characters.

During the series's run, he appeared in films such as The Clown Murders (1976) and had a hand in a low-budget comedy, Find the Lady (1976). He appeared on shows including The David Steinberg Show and King of Kensington, and he appeared in The Silent Partner (1978).

Candy took a short break from television to launch a more active film career in 1979, after appearing in a minor role in Lost and Found (1979) and portraying a US Army soldier in Steven Spielberg's big-budget comedy 1941.

He travelled to Canada for performances in The Courage of Kavik (1980), the Wolf Dog (1980) and the action thriller Double Negative (1980). Burton Mercer, a simplegoing parole officer in The Blues Brothers (1980), starring Aykroyd, was his supporter, and he appeared in Tales of the Klondike (1981) on Canadian television.

Candy hosted a short-lived NBC television show Roadshow in 1980, dubbed "improvisational journalism" by The Washington Post. Appearing as himself, candy, and a video crew travelled on a tour bus to Baton Rouge, LA), and Carbondale, Illinois (home of Southern Illinois University), where the latter's Halloween street party took place. In addition, he had backstage access to interview Midge Ure, the lead singer of the UK experimental band Ultravox, which appeared on the SIU campus the evening of 10/31/80. If more than two episodes have been broadcast, it's uncertain.

Candy was one of the year's best films. Dewey Oxberger, a lovable, mild-mannered Army recruit, was the star of Stripes (1981), directed by Canadian Ivan Reitman. He appeared in numerous scenes in the animated film Heavy Metal (1981), most notable as the title character in the "Den" segment, which was well received, including Richard Corben, who singled out Candy's humsily lighthearted interpretation of the title character as excellent.

Candy appeared on television from 1981 to 1983. He made a cameo appearance in Harold Ramis' National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), his first collaboration with John Hughes, who wrote the script.

Candy appeared on Saturday Night Live twice (hosting in 1983), but it was also on SCTV. Candy was reputedly the "most-burned potential host" of SNL, according to writer Bob Odenkirk, but only for plans to be changed by the SNL staff at the last minute.

In the Canadian film Going Berserk (1983), Candy headlined. He was supposed to play accountant Louis Tully in Ghostbusters (1984), starring Aykroyd and directed by Reitman, but he did not get the role because of his conflicting visions of how to portray the character; rather, he was directed by SCTV colleague Rick Moranis, whose thoughts were more welcome. However, Candy did contribute to the series as one of the many people chanting "Ghostbusters" in Ray Parker Jr.'s hit song.

Candy appeared in the hit romantic comedy Splash as Tom Hanks' womanizing brother, but generally speaking as a break-out actor. Following the success of the film, he had signed a three-picture production and film contract with Walt Disney Pictures, and he'd continue to produce various theatricals as planned starring vehicles for himself.

Candy went back to Canada to appear in The Last Polka (1985), a film he co-authored with co-star Eugene Levy. Richard Pryor's best friend on Brewster's Millions (1985), he appeared in the Sesame Street film Follow The Bird (1985).

Candy's first lead role in a Hollywood film was with Summer Rental (1985), directed by Carl Reiner. In Volunteers (1985), he was reunited with Hanks, but Splash did not do as well as Splash. In 1984, he appeared in The Canadian Conspiracy (1985), as well as Martin Short in Dave Thomas' "The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood (1985) in Canada.

Armed and Dangerous (1986) with Levy and Meg Ryan was Candy's second leading role in a Hollywood film. He appeared in Really Weird Tales (1987) and appeared in Little Shop of Horrors (1986). He was also involved in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987).

When Candy appeared in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), written and directed by John Hughes, he made a hit film. He appeared in a cameo appearance in Hughes' She's Having a Baby (1988) and later appeared in a Hughes-produced film, The Great Outdoors (1988), costarring Aykroyd.

Who's Harry Crumb? Candy appeared in Hot to Trot (1988) and starred in a flop comedy that some consider to be a cult classic. (1989), which he also produced. He was one of many names in Cannonball Fever (1989), and he appeared in Uncle Buck (1989).

Candy was also produced and appeared in a NBC animated cartoon called Camp Candy on Saturday. The performance was held in a fictional summer camp run by Candy, starred his two children in supporting roles, and also inspired a short comic book collection based on Marvel Comics' Star Comics imprint.

Candy made The Rocket Boy (1989) in Canada and appeared in two other Hughes films, The blockbuster hit film Home Alone (1990) and the box office flop (1991).

Wilbur the Albatross in Disney's The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and he appeared in Nothing But Trouble (1991), Dan Aykroyd's most well-known box office flop.

Candy appeared in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991), a shady Southern lawyer, during this period.

Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky, and Candy became the owners of the Toronto Argonauts in 1991. The celebrity ownership group attracted attention in Canada, and the team invested a considerable amount of money, as well as signing some highly coveted National Football League prospects, such as wide receiver Raghib Ismail. The Argonauts won the 1991 Grey Cup after defeating Calgary 36–21 in the final. Only McNall's name was etched onto the Grey Cup trophy as a team's owner, but the CFL rectified the mistake in 2007 and added Candy's and Gretzky's names as well.

Candy hosted "Radio Kandy," a hot adult contemporary radio music countdown syndicated by Premiere Networks from 1988 to 1990.

Christopher Columbus wrote and directed Only the Lonely (1991), starring Candy and Maurice O'Hara, a big success but not a huge success.

The comedies Delirious (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992) were both unsuccessful (1991). In Boris and Natasha: The Movie (1992), he appeared in the film "The Year" (1993).

Candy appeared in his first comedic hit with Cool Runnings (1993).

He made his directorial debut in the 1994 comedy Hostage for a Day. His last appearances were in Can Bacon (1995) and Wagons East.

Candy was in talks to portray Ignatius J. Reilly in a now-shelved film version of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Confederacy of Dunces. In a biopic based on Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, he had also expressed an interest in starring Atuk in a film adaptation of Mordecai Richler's The Incomparable Atuk and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Candy, John Belushi, Sam Kinison, and Chris Farley were all attached to all three projects, and they did not appear in any of these films before they could make any of these films.

Candy was originally supposed to appear in Alec Guinness' role in the remake of the 1950 film Last Holiday, directed by Carl Reiner. In a loose remake that came later in 2006, Queen Latifah took the role.

Candy was also supposed to star in a comedy with John Hughes called Bartholomew vs. Neff. Candy and Stallone were supposed to have depicted feuding neighbors.

The role of Redfeather in the animated Disney film Pocahontas was written for him but the turkey was subsequently removed from the film after his death.

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